Diana Whaley (ed.) 2009, ‘Þjóðólfr Arnórsson, Sexstefja 17’ in Kari Ellen Gade (ed.), Poetry from the Kings’ Sagas 2: From c. 1035 to c. 1300. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 2. Turnhout: Brepols, pp. 130-1.
Sogns kvôðu gram gegnan
glæst sjau tøgu it fæsta
senn á svipstund einni
Sveins þjóðar skip hrjóða.
Kvôðu {gegnan gram Sogns} hrjóða glæst skip þjóðar Sveins, it fæsta sjau tøgu senn á einni svipstund.
‘They said that the upright lord of Sogn [NORWEGIAN KING = Haraldr] cleared adorned ships of Sveinn’s people, at least seventy at once, in a single fleeting time.’
Defeated Danes flee the battle at the Nissan (Niz) estuary by boarding ships that have not been joined together as fighting platforms (or that they have cut free), but at least seventy of Sveinn’s ships are left behind.
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Sogns kvôðu gram gegnan
glæst sjau tøgu it fæsta
senn á svipstund einni
Sveins þjóðar skip †rioð†.
Sogns qvaðo gram gegnan | glæst lxx ⸌tigi⸍ et fæsta | seɴ a svipstund eiɴi | Sveins þioðar scip rioð |
(VEÞ)
Sogns kvôðu gram gegnan
glæst sjau tøgu it fæsta
senn á svipstund einni
Sveins þjóðar skip rjóða.
Sogns kvôðu gram gegnan
glæst sjau tøgu it næsta
senn á svipstund einni
Sveins þjóðar skip hrjóða.
Sogns kvaþo gram gegnan glæst ·lxx· hít næsta seɴ a | svíp stvnd eíɴí sveins þioðar skip hrioða·
(VEÞ)
Sogns hǫfðu gram gegnan
glæst sjau tøgu it fæsta
senn á svipstund einni
Sveins þjóðar skip hrjóða.
Sogns kvôðu gram gegnan
glæst sjau tøgu it fæsta
senn á svipstund einni
Sveins þjóðar skip rjóða.
Sogns kvôðu gram gegnann
glæst sjau tøgu it fæsta
senn á sviftu einni
Sveins þjóðar skip rjóða.
Sogns kvôðu gram gegnan
glæst sjau tøgu it fæsta
senn á sviftu einni
Sveins þjóðar skip rjóða.
†Sꜹngs† kvôðu gram gengin
glæst sjau tøgu it fæsta
senn á svipstund einni
Sveins þjóðar skip †hroþa†.
†Sꜹngs† kvôðu gram ganga
glæstar †taugu† it næsta
senn á svipstund einni
Sveins þjóðar skip rjóða.
†Sꜹngs† kvôðu gram genginn
glæst sjau tøgu it fæsta
senn á svipstund einni
Sveins þjóðar skip hrjóða.
†Sꜹngs† kvôðu gram gengin
glæst sjau tøgu it fæsta
senn á svipstund einni
Sveins þjóðar skip hrjóða.
Skj: Þjóðolfr Arnórsson, 3. Sexstefja 16: AI, 372, BI, 342-3, Skald I, 172; Hkr 1893-1901, III, 165, IV, 230, ÍF 28, 151, Hkr 1991, 658 (HSig ch. 63), F 1871, 229, E 1916, 76; Fsk 1902-3, 271 (ch. 47), ÍF 29, 268 (ch. 57); Mork 1928-32, 211, Andersson and Gade 2000, 230, 478 (MH); Flat 1860-8, III, 363 (MH); Fms 6, 319 (HSig ch. 78), Fms 12, 157.
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